Part 13 (1/2)
”Good!” he cried ”Go to your rooet your sticks I'll find out all about the course and how to get to it”
The brusk good-nature of the aoodness only knehen I should have the chance of another after this one As for looking for work;--as never to be coolf Surely work could wait for one day!
”All right!--I'aiety that lay so easily onup and holding out his hand ”My name's Horsfal,--K B Horsfal,--lumberman, meat-packer, and theWhat's yours?”
”George Bree, my boy,--see you in ten minutes But, remember, I called this tune, so I pay the piper”
That was reed
”Make it twenty ested ”I have a short letter to write”
I wrote ave it to the boy to deliver for ht up to time
In the half hour's run we had in the electric trareat deal about Mr K B Horsfal
He had e of seventeen
He had kicked,--or had been kicked,--about the United States for soainst it all the time, as he expressively put it; when, by a lucky chance, in a poverty-stricken endeavour to repair his broken braces, he hit upon a scheh to see its possibilities, patented his idea and became famous
Not content to rest on his laurels,--or his braces,--he tackled the lu industry in the East, both with considerable success Now he had to sit down and do so when he wished to find out how many millions of dollars he orth
His wife had died years ago and his only daughter was at hohtful type to one likeman fresh from his ancestral roof in the north of staid and conventional old England
He was healthy, vigorous, and as keen as the edge of a razor
On and on he talked, telling ot to wondering if he werethe proverbial sprat; but the sprat in his case proved the whale Every moment I expected him to ask me for some confidences in return, but on this point Mr K B
Horsfal was silent
We discovered our golfing ground, which proved to be a fairly good, little, nine-holed country course, rough and full of natural hazards
K B Horsfal could play golf, that I soon found out He entered into his gained he displayed in everything he took a hand in
He seldo of his feet and the proper adjustment of his hands and his clubs
Three times ent round that course and three tiin He envied ; he studied reen and he scratched his head at so putts; but,out of a hole
”Man,--if I only had that trick of yours in handling the mashi+e and the niblick, I could do the round a stroke a hole better, for there isn't a rut, or a tuft, or a bunker in any course that I seem to be able to keep out of”